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The family of a murdered husband and wife, last seen alive in Norfolk, has described the couple's killer as a "twisted individual". 

Ali Qazimaj, 43, formerly of Tilbury, Essex, was found guilty of murder by a jury at Ipswich Crown Court.

He had killed Peter and Sylvia Stuart from Weybread, near Eye, Suffolk.

The body of Mr Stuart, 75, was found with nine stab wounds near the couple's home. Mrs Stuart's body is yet to be located. 

Speaking after the verdicts were returned, the couple's family said: "To all those involved in bringing this case to trial and its eventually conclusion, we would like to offer our heartfelt thanks. 

"To the twisted individual who committed this wicked crime, we hope you spend the rest of your miserable existence reflecting on the utter senselessness and brutality of what you did to two innocent people. 

"Maybe, one day, you will find the moral courage to tell us where Sylvia is so that we may give her and our family some final peace."

A murderer who killed a husband and wife from north Suffolk was tracked down by four "key strands" of evidence, police have said. 

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Ali Qazimaj, 43, formerly of Tilbury, Essex, has been found guilty of two counts of murder . He had claimed he had been a victim of mistaken identity. 

Peter Stuart, 75, of Weybread, near Eye, was found stabbed to death near the home he shared with his wife on 3 June. Mrs Stuart's body has still not been found. 

Det Ch Insp Andy Guy, from Suffolk Police, said evidence of DNA, handwriting samples, fingerprints and physical appearance provided by the police was "compelling". 

He said: "To try and argue in the witness box that you’re not the man in the photograph when clearly you are is quite bizarre."  

Police have welcomed the guilty verdict of a man accused of killing a north Suffolk couple after a "thorough" and "lengthy" investigation.

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Ali Qazimaj, 43, formerly of Tilbury, Essex, has been found guilty of murdering Sylvia and Peter Stuart from Weybread.

He is due to be sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court on Tuesday.

Mr Stuart, 75, was found dead near the couple's home. Mrs Stuart's body has still not been found. The couple were last seen alive during a visit to a Norfolk farm shop.

Det Ch Insp Andy Guy, from Suffolk Police, said: "I'm really pleased with the verdict and I know the family are as well, you could see it from the emotion in the court. 

"It's been a very thorough investigation, a lengthy investigation, but it's absolutely the right decision."  

He said Qazimaj claimed asylum in 1999, claiming to be from Kosovo, when came from Albania. Police said he had been living in Essex since about 1999.

A judge has said he was "not surprised " the jury took little time to return its verdict.

Ali Qazimaj, 43, formerly of Tilbury, Essex, has been found guilty of killing Suffolk couple Sylvia and Peter Stuart.

The jury at Ipswich Crown Court took less than four hours to return a unanimous guilty verdict.

Judge Jeremy Stuart-Smith told the jury: "I know you've not taken very long in absolute terms to reach your verdicts, but I don't find that at all surprising." 

Mr Stuart, 75, was found dead with nine stab wounds in shallow water in woodland near the couple's home in Weybread, near Eye, on 3 June.

Mrs Stuart's body has still not been found but five hairs matching her DNA were discovered in a car registered to Qazimaj.

Cleah Hetherington
BBC Radio Suffolk

A couple's daughter was brought to tears as the man accused of killing her parents was found guilty.

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The jury at Ipswich Crown Court has found Ali Qazimaj. 43, formerly of Tilbury, Essex, guilty of murdering Sylvia and Peter Stuart from Weybread, near Eye.

It took just under four hours for the jury to return its verdict.

The couple's daughter Christy Paxman gasped and cried as the verdicts were given in court.

Qazimaj, meanwhile, was impassive in the dock and showed no emotion as he heard the verdicts.

He had claimed he had been a victim of mistaken identity.

Qazimaj is due to be sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court tomorrow.

A man accused of murdering a husband and wife from north Suffolk has been found guilty.

Peter and Sylvia Stuart were reported missing from their home in Weybread in June 2016. 

Mr Stuart's body was found nearby with nine stab wounds, but Mrs Stuart has yet to be found. The couple were last seen alive at a Norfolk farm shop on 29 May.

A jury at Ipswich Crown Court found Ali Qazimaj, 43, formerly of Tilbury, Essex, guilty of two counts of murder. 

He had claimed he was a victim of mistaken identity.

Qazimaj will be sentenced tomorrow.

A man accused of killing a Suffolk couple has been found guilty.

More to follow shortly..

The new Costa Coffee roastery which opened in Basildon today offers up some impressive facts and figures.

The company says rapid growth has driven up demand and the new Paradise Street facility will allow them to continue to expand globally.

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• Paradise Street takes Costa's roasting capacity from 11,000 tonnes of coffee each year to 45,000
• The new facility is Europe’s biggest coffee roastery and covers 85,690 sq ft  (7,961 sq m)
• According to research company Mintel - in 2017 UK consumers are forecast to spend £1.17m on coffee, and will buy 66 million kg (145 million lbs) of the stuff
• A new coffee academy at the site will train 3,000 new baristi per year

Work on a £5m project to stabilise the cliffs along the Clacton to Holland coastline is starting today.

Ground investigation - partly looking at the area's London clay - is beginning today, with the aim of providing information about how the future scheme should be designed.

Sample boreholes will be sunk on the greensward on top of the cliffs to a minimum of 10m (32ft) deep before the samples are sent off for laboratory testing.

"This early work will help us to shape the various options we need to consider and eventually use to stabilise the cliffs," Nick Turner from Tendring District Council said.

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As we've been reporting, the jury at the trial of a man accused of killing a husband and wife has been sent out to consider its verdict.

The defendant, named by prosecutors as Ali Qazimaj, 43, denies murdering Peter and Sylvia Stuart, from Weybread, Suffolk.

He also claims he is not the man wanted by police, and his real name is Vital Dapi, Ipswich Crown Court has heard.

During his summing up on Thursday , Mr Justice Stuart-Smith referred to how Mr Stuart's body was found.

The 75-year-old was found with nine stab wounds, eight of which could have been fatal, on Mill Lane on 3 June.

Mrs Stuart's body has never been found, but a silver Citroen C3 car, found in Dover on 5 June, contained five grey hairs matching the DNA profile of Sylvia Stuart. 

The vehicle was registered to Mr Qazimaj and was found to have fingerprints which a forensics expert matched to him, although the defendant says either the prints were the result of a mix-up or that he shares identical fingerprints with someone else. 

The trial has been ongoing at Ipswich Crown Court for a month. 

Cleah Hetherington
BBC Radio Suffolk

Identity is at the heart of the Ali Qazimaj trial at Ipswich Crown Court. 

The judge in the case outlined both sides for the jury before they retired to consider their verdict this morning.  

The prosecution says the man in the dock is Ali Qazimaj - a man who has used several identities while living in the UK. 

They have produced DNA and fingerprint evidence taken from Mr Qazimaj in previous years which they say matches that of the man who says he's Vital Dapi. 

They also point to his use of English which they say he's learned while living here.

The defence case is that the defendant is not Ali Qazimaj, but a different man called Vital Dapi. He has never been to the UK and had not heard of Peter and Sylvia Stuart before his arrest in Luxembourg last year. 

He says the fingerprint and DNA evidence has been swapped by corrupt police to ensure it matches that of Ali Qazimaj. 

The defendant says he learned English in Albania and picked up colloquialisms off people he'd come into contact with since his arrest.

The jury has now retired to consider its verdict. 

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Cleah Hetherington
BBC Radio Suffolk

The jury has retired to consider its verdict at the murder trial of a man accused of killing a Suffolk couple. 

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The defendant, named by prosecutors as Ali Qazimaj, 43, denies killing Peter and Sylvia Stuart, from Weybread, Suffolk. 

Mr Stuart, 75, was stabbed to death last June. The body of Mrs Stuart, 69, has never been found. They were last seen alive at Goodies Farm Shop in Pulham Market, Norfolk, on 29 May.

The accused claims his name is Vital Dapi , that he is 44 years old, and is from the city of Elbasan in Albania. 

He claims he was not in the UK at the time Mr and Mrs Stuart were killed. 

It has been claimed his DNA and fingerprints were swapped with those of Ali Qazimaj because of "police corruption". 

Mr Justice Stuart-Smith spent an hour going through the defence evidence at Ipswich Crown Court this morning before sending out the jury. He instructed the jury to return a unanimous verdict. 

The inquest into the death of David Green at a building site near Manningtree last year heard he was wearing a hard hat when the dumper truck he was driving overturned, but he may not have had it strapped on.

The 32-year-old was found underneath the truck with head injuries at Summers Park building site in Coxs Road, Lawford, last October.

One of his colleagues told the coroner's court head straps on helmets were "optional" and would only be worn on a windy day.

The colleague of a dumper truck driver who died when the vehicle he was in overturned on a mound of earth says those who worked on the building site were "never compelled to wear seatbelts".

Giving evidence at Chelmsford Coroner's Court about the death of David Green at Summers Park building site near Lawford last October, Martin McCarthy confirmed the health and safety contract employees sign says seatbelts must be worn.

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But he told the inquest: "We didn't wear seatbelts".

He said there was a policy that after three breaches of health and safety rules, an employee could be suspended or sacked.

A man has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving following the deaths of two pedestrians in Basildon.

Dean Evans, 35 (pictured) and Carli Scott, 30, both of Basildon, died following a crash in Roundacre on 22 March last year. 

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Essex Police said a 27-year-old man had been charged with two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and two counts of causing death by careless driving while under the influence of drugs. 

He will appear at Basildon Magistrates' Court next month.

The inquest into the death of 32-year-old David Green at a building site near Manningtree has heard he may not have been wearing a seatbelt in the dumper truck he was driving which rolled over.

Det Insp Kevin Hughes told the inquest he attended the scene of Mr Green's death at Summers Park building site in Lawford last October.

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He said Mr Green had driven a dumper truck up a mound of earth approximately 3m (10ft) in height, before the truck appeared to have rolled over.

Det Insp Hughes told the coroner's court it appeared the truck's seatbelt was plugged in at the time, but was "stowed away behind the seat" and did not appear to have been in use by Mr Green.

An inquest into the death of a man at a north Essex building site has heard he was found underneath a dumper truck.

David Green, 32, had been driving the truck on 3 October 2016 and was emptying soil from the front of it when it overturned, Essex coroner Caroline Beasley Murray heard.

The coroner's officer said Mr Green was found with a head injury underneath the truck, which was upside down at Summers Park building site in Coxs Hill near Lawford.